. A history of British birds . ; but the record ofits occurrence in Spitsbergen appears to be an error, the onlyspecies found there being Brlinnichs Guillemot. AVith theexception of Bornholm, it can hardly be said to have a breed-ing-place in the Baltic ; there is a colony on Heligoland ;and many exist on the northern and western coasts of France. COMMON GUILLEMOT. 73 Southwards its winter range extends as far as the CanaryIslands, but it seldom goes any distance up the Mediter-ranean. On the American side of the Atlantic it occursregularly from New England in winter up to about 60** N.
. A history of British birds . ; but the record ofits occurrence in Spitsbergen appears to be an error, the onlyspecies found there being Brlinnichs Guillemot. AVith theexception of Bornholm, it can hardly be said to have a breed-ing-place in the Baltic ; there is a colony on Heligoland ;and many exist on the northern and western coasts of France. COMMON GUILLEMOT. 73 Southwards its winter range extends as far as the CanaryIslands, but it seldom goes any distance up the Mediter-ranean. On the American side of the Atlantic it occursregularly from New England in winter up to about 60** N. summer; and it has been obtained atGodthaab in Green-land about 4° further north. In the North Pacific it isrepresented by a closely allied and very doubtfully distinctform, Uria californica, Bryant. In former Editions of this work the Ringed or BridledGuillemot was figured and described with the concludingremark by the Author, that opinions seemed fairly balancedas to whether this bird is a species or a variety. Since those. lines were written the general opinion of ornithologists hasinclined to consider it as merely a race with a tendency todevelop an unusual amount of white encircling the eye andrunning along the crease or furrow which passes thencedown the sides of the head. It inhabits the same localities,and is always found in company with the common species,but in far inferior numbers. At Lundy Island it is rare, soit is at Flamborough. On the Fame Islands, where theEditor had an opportunity of watching the breeding Guille-mots at a very short distance, he observed several birds withwell-developed eye-rings and streaks, sitting on their eggs,whilst others exhibited gradations from the above to theusual furrow with only a few white feathers at its junction VOL. IV. L 74 ALCID.^, with the eye (Zool. 1866, p. x.) On Handa, oflf the coastof Sutherland, the Ringed variety is said by Mr. Harvie-Brovvn to he abundant as compared with other bird stationsin Scotland, being in t
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